FunVax is a Government created viral vaccine that “cures” religious fundamentalism.

The virus was developed in early 2004 and is now being used. It was created to end terrorism and create a peaceful Middle East.

The way it works is that viral vaccine injects a gene that cause the VMAT2 (the so-called “God Gene”) to become inactivated. The inactivity of this gene causes people to become less likely to believe in Religion.

Pentagon briefing video:

People are outraged, saying – OhmygodthePentagonwantstokillGod. Some say the video is fake. Personally, the video seems plausible. It’s not like this guy is meeting with the Pentagon’s top brass. My guess is the Pentagon has meetings like this all the time where people present ideas on how to deal with religious radicalism, and other things the Pentagon has to face. Most of these ideas are discarded, but someone in the Pentagon at least hears them out.

Of course, FunVax could be totally abused. But to take a hypothetical – imagine if you were able to avoid a nuclear war by showering a region with a vaccine. In a world where people are advocating a Final Solution for Islam, this would be a significantly lesser of two evils. It’s doubtful that manipulating VMAT2 has the capacity to pinpoint a specific kind of religious faith, rather than belief in general, but at some point we might be able to do this, so it can at least be part of the discussion. Of course the road to hell is paved with good intentions and all that.

Beyond that, it has the makings of good fiction. Imagine a FunVax vaccine that kills faith entirely. This could kill people’s faith in science as well, the faith your spouse isn’t cheating, the faith the sun will rise, any number of things – it’d be a different sort of end of the world. It’s a novel, or at least a story, worth writing.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

More via Right Wing Watch:

What’s ironic is that all of this actually makes me entertain the idea of a Christian God – because all of these people are so thoroughly Anti-Christian, anti-Jesus’s message, that they are in a way fulfilling prophecy. It’s eerie.

Because I like mixing up right wing Christianity and the UFO issue, this video also caught my attention, and it’s troubling for similar reasons.

It’s the same message: anyone putting forth ideas to improve society should be feared. Progress is enslavement. It’s what was so ridiculous about Alex Jones’s freakout about DMT. Psychedelics, UFOs, technology – they’re all part of the plan to enslave us. The only way to be free of the plan, then, is to sit still and do nothing. But wait – that actually sounds like a kind of enslavement.

So there is no difference between right wing Christian conspiracy theorizing and New World Order conspiracy theorizing. One of the guys in the Maddow video actually mentions the Illuminati. I guess the main difference is that NWO conspiracy theorists do hate the entire system, Republican and Democrat, whereas the Christian right sides with one party. But they both encourage orthodoxy and fear progress. If conspiracy theorists were really free thinkers, they’d be as afraid of the theory as they are of the conspiracy.

There is “Zeigeist,” too, which questions the origin of Christianity AND talks about NWO paranoia. So it’s possible to have a very reasonable paranoia about government, secrecy, corporate welfare, and everything else that’s broken in the system. But Alex Jones criticizes “Zeitgeist” for being “part of the conspiracy” too. The moral: stay away from Alex Jones, there’s limited breathing room between him and the Christian right.

I found the Disclosure video on the Secret Sun Facebook page. Christopher Knowles captions:

Nice art disguising rank stupidity in the text. If conspiranoia is so rebel and UFOs are just NWO agitprop why is UFO Hunters off the air but Alex Jones and Glenn Beck and Conspiracy Theory still on? Why are we seeing nothing but evil alien stuff on TV and in the movies? People get brainwashed by alt-media and pretend they’re free thinkers- it would funny if it weren’t so dangerous.

An argument can be made that the evil alien stuff is actually playing into the whole message of the video. When aliens come, people will be scared to death because that’s all they’ve seen in popular media. Therefore they’ll need to be easily controlled. Trouble is, people are so reactionary that even if an alien race was 100% benevolent, a large faction of people would see them as the Anti-Christ – and probably a lot of non-religious people might be jarred enough to entertain that thought as well.

So disclosure just isn’t going to happen: people are too crazy. So crazy that if disclosure happened, there would likely have to be some kind of advanced control system in place to avoid a total planetary meltdown.

Wait, that means Alex Jones might be right. Dammit.

But beyond that, lumping together all conspiracies under the same umbrella is a strange kind of racism.  As if people who believe in the moon landing hoax are exactly the same as people who question JFK’s assassination. It’s just a method of ridicule without taking the time to look at any of the underlying evidence.  Michael Shermer turns out to be the conspiracy theorist - all conspiracies are working in collusion. More and more – I won’t say I’m regretting – I’m questioning some of the assumptions I made in my recent Reality Sandwich piece.  Not that 9-11 truth is an absolute certainty, but the arguments for the other side are sometimes so dubious that it may not be useful to give them too much credit – which is why people were so upset with my assumptions.

What’s interesting is that if you look at the comments throughout the web whenever 9-11 is mentioned – whether it’s the Huffington Post, Youtube, or anywhere – many people are questioning the official 9-11 story.  It’s just that the mainstream will not – viva la web. In a strange way, it’s the Obama administration that’s leading to this conclusion – not the Bush administration. Those Obama supporters who have seen Obama protect torturers, continue the war in Afghanistan, oversee a government that raids peace activists, etc. see that government can be kind of fucked.

There’s a whole lot of disillusionment going on – which is a cousin to paranoia.  To not be somewhat disillusioned in the state of the world, and not understand that the government doesn’t always have the long-term interest of the country at heart, doesn’t make people conspiracy theorists, it just means they’re paying attention.  All Shermer is saying is: don’t trust people who don’t blindly trust everything the government does. Sure, some of these theories can be ludicrous, but it’s equally ludicrous to trust everything coming out of a politician’s mouth. And it’s just as ludicrous to believe the perspective of skeptics who don’t offer proof for their skepticism.  That some people have stupid ideas isn’t proof that all conspiracies are false.

Story of my life. Click to read the whole thing:

I’ll leave it to the New York Times review to sum this up perfectly:

The problem with “The Reflecting Pool,” an investigative drama that mucks around with 9/11 conspiracy theories, is not that its ideas are silly. Strictly from an imaginative point of view, there is something unnerving about the weirdly elegant way the towers fell. And not just the north and south buildings but also the adjacent 7 World Trade Center, a smaller edifice, suffering much less damage, that collapsed in an identical manner but received far less coverage from — what’s the phrase I’m looking for? — oh yes: a complicit, propaganda-foisting media/industrial complex in the pocket of the Bush administration and the Jews and the oil industry!

Er, to continue. The problem, which dwarfs whatever you might feel about the topic, is in the drama, or utter lack thereof. Written and directed by Jarek Kupsc, the movie has the tone, rhythm and structure of a set of numbered, handwritten notes derived from 9/11 conspiracy Web sites, photocopied at Kinko’s and distributed at an anarchist bookshop.

This pamphlet narrative follows the efforts of Alex Prokop (Mr. Kupsc again), an investigative journalist for a lefty magazine about to “go corporate,” and Paul Cooper (Joseph Culp), a 9/11 obsessive whose daughter died in the attack, to unearth the truth in the face of suppressed information, disturbing ambiguities and, when needling the powers that be, their own amateurism.

It’s perfect because the reviewer’s right – it’s basically just a series of articles put into dialog. But it also shows how little attention this issue gets. The reviewer spends no time discussing whether the ideas may be valid, and it’s mostly just mockery – which is the point of the movie itself.

Here are some smart people on the topic:

http://www.ae911truth.org/

http://www.stj911.org/

Watched this. Sort of another “Zeitgeist,” except it’s fairly right wing (as opposed to Libertarian) and full of contradictions. The elite are pagans out to create a world that worships the earth so the answer is…paganism. A strange mixture of New Age spirituality and right wing rhetoric. Has this alarmingly stupid sentence: “Global Warming is a fallacy.” Has a Glenn Beck voice over. Pro-gun to save us from “tyranny.”

Put all that together and it sounds fairly stupid. But it does have some interesting quotes and footage and I’m always impressed by people who put together these comprehensive anti-establishment docs. Just need to be able to sift through it.

I couldn’t make it through the sequel.

In one gruesome set of experiments, at least 25 detainees were submitted to both individual and combined use of the different “enhanced interrogation” techniques developed by the CIA through reverse-engineering of the military’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) program, techniques which were originally developed to inoculate U.S. military personnel against torture. The purpose of this experiment, monitored by doctors, was to ascertain the effects of the different combinations of techniques as they pertained to “susceptibility to severe pain,” attempting thereby to calibrate levels of pain in order to keep the interrogations within the dubious frontiers of legality proposed by John Yoo and Jay Bybee in their infamous torture memos.

Here’s what I wrote in April 2009:

Because I’m an avowed conspiracy theorist, I believe there’s got to be more to the torture story than merely “trying to get information.” When you’re waterboarding someone 183 times, there’s something else happening….This really seems like pure sadism at work – or possibly practicing the technique to be used on other people. Or seeing the effect of multiple bouts of torture on the human psyche – i.e. experimentation, nothing to do with gaining information.

Read Truthout’s comprehensive history of the mind control/torture projects MK Ultra and Project Artichoke – no conspiracy theory here.

Houston, who had served the Agency as its doyen general counsel for over 25 years, secretly huddled on at least two occasions in June 1975 with Ford’s chief of staff, Donald Rumsfeld, and his chief assistant, Richard Cheney. Houston impressed upon both men that any prolonged and intense media scrutiny of Project Artichoke would lead to opening a Pandora’s box of legal, institutional, international and public relations problems that could destroy the CIA….

Houston additionally explained to Rumsfeld and Cheney that, along with the release of MK/ULTRA details to the media, the names of a few former CIA employees, such as Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, would also be released to the press. Incredibly, when the subject of possible federal prosecutions of CIA officials for capital crimes and felonies, such as murder and drug trafficking, came up in their discussion, Houston informed Rumsfeld and Cheney that there was little cause for concern.

Obama’s protection of this program is one of the bigger mysteries – suggesting that it’s way worse than what has thus far been revealed.  Like people claim UFO disclosure would shatter the fabric of society, the disclosure of these torture programs might shatter people’s faith in government.

Good debunking stuff here.

Meanwhile: Bill Gates pays for ‘artificial’ clouds to beat greenhouse gases

The first trials of controversial sunshielding technology are being planned after the United Nations failed to secure agreement on cutting greenhouse gases.

Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards. This would seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth.

That’s Bill Gates and the London Times.  Occasionally, conspiracy theorists are right.

Though I find elements of Paul’s outlook interesting, I also think libertarianism is impractical. Yes, a stateless utopia via the Venus Project is a nice idea, but it’s not possible currently with the current U.S. system. You could argue that the system necessarily needs to fall apart in order to usher in a new stateless system, and given human instincts, libertarianism would probably usher in that downfall faster than any other system. As has been proven countless times, if the unfettered free market is given free reign to do whatever it wants, it sides with abuse of the planet and its people. To have government intervene with new regulation isn’t proof of creeping fascism, it’s proof that humans won’t do the right thing if they have the choice not to.

Whenever anyone cries socialism about Obama I recoil – it’s just such an inaccurate reading of the tea leaves.  If Obama was a Communist, he wouldn’t be making the far left so angry.  He’s a Clinton centrist, and for that reason he’s a disappointment.  I figured he was running towards the center for the election and would be a bit more open when he finally got into office.  And by open, I mean, yes, more socialist.

The problem we’re in is that we’re in a corporatocracy, so anything that takes away corporate power is fine by me.  But some conspiracy theorists and the “small government” right see nefarious encroachment in any government – which doesn’t make sense.  All government isn’t evil.  Of course not.  At what point do libertarians draw the line at regulations?  I’m glad my tap water doesn’t kill me, for one.  Much regulation is reasonably self-protecting.

Doubtlessly, the entire system needs reworking because people are basically forced into a system in which their income doesn’t much exceed their basic needs, so they’re tied endlessly to the 40 hour work week.  People then blame taxes for their troubles, but really they should be blaming the amount of their paycheck, not the amount that goes to taxes – how much profit is the business making relative to what its paying its employees? Make no mistake, if the monthly paycheck was higher, people wouldn’t be so concerned with the amount taken out by taxes. Perhaps that makes me a Communist – because I see no fault in there being some equality between what a business owner makes and what an employee makes. Perhaps not equal, but some better disparity is more equitable.

Likewise, the hardliner conspiracy-minded rightwing that scream about the global warming “hoax” also makes me want to flee. The mounting scientific evidence aside, the fact that global warming is inspiring more environmental awareness can only be positive. At my kid’s school, there’s a board where kids have created collages saying “Protect the earth” and so on. Some would call this “indoctrination.” It’s not because at its core, it’s positive.

If you look at the rhetoric of the right – libtards, et al. – it doesn’t take into account how Teabagger-style angry the left is about the state of the country.  For example, Game Over:

Without a single iota of hyperbole, it may now be said that regulatory capture of our government by Wall Street has been concluded. Done deal. Since Monday, the sheer volume of news supporting the truth that Wall Street essentially controls our government has become–quite simply–overwhelming.

It is the total sellout of Main Street and our country as a whole that’s been all but concluded before our very eyes. To call it anything less than that would be inaccurate reportage.

It’s beyond disgusting, IMHO. Words cannot convey my sense of contempt…that to which we’re bearing witness today.  It is the definition of betrayal.

That sounds exactly like Teabagger hysteria, but unlike “Obama is a socialist,” this one has some merit.  It’s actually closer to fascism – the marriage of corporations and government – except that doesn’t make Obama a fascist, because this is an ideology perpetrated by the right much more than what remains of the left in power.  An idea very much lost on the right wing.  The purpose of a government health care plan, for example, is not “socialism,” but to take power away from Blue Cross and other corporations who are screwing their consumers.

Where the right stupidly think Obama represents a socialist takeover, they don’t seem to realize that they basically have a Republican, corporate-centered candidate who is stripping regulation, not adding more government “interference.”  People’s sense of logic really does seem to be devolving – though I imagine this is how it’s always been.  Stupidity has no generation:

More in this vein:

There’s a deeper and more disturbing similarity: elite business interests—financiers, in the case of the U.S.—played a central role in creating the crisis, making ever-larger gambles, with the implicit backing of the government, until the inevitable collapse. More alarming, they are now using their influence to prevent precisely the sorts of reforms that are needed, and fast, to pull the economy out of its nosedive. The government seems helpless, or unwilling, to act against them.

Think that’s from a Paulite conspiracy screed?  Joe Stack’s manifesto?  No, it’s from The Atlantic.

Obama is enough to make one paranoid – I’ll grant conspiracists that.  In the sense that he had more honest idealism during the campaign (wasn’t entirely just exploiting people’s hopes) and then once he was handed the reins he learned – this is how it really works.  I continually can’t get my head around a system that is continually built so that it destroys itself.  He seems to be playing the same game as everyone else.  Basically, all of Obama’s slogans were crap: “Change doesn’t happen from the top down, but from the bottom up.”  “We’re the change we’ve been waiting for.”  “This is the moment.” Etc.  The crash from all that hope is pretty stark.

I’m glad I didn’t see Zeitgeist until now because in 2008, during Obama’s rise, I wouldn’t have wanted to absorb it.  The primary and election season were a fucking lot of fun.  It felt like Kennedy – don’t insert Kennedy’s bad policies here, on a more thematic level than that.  I’ve held on for a long time that Obama’s presidency was transformative enough by just who he is, but basically all we get with Obama is financial collapse at a slower rate than would have happened with McCain/Palin.

So I’m kind of in no man’s land. Too liberal for the libertarian right, and too whacked out entertaining 9-11 truth, UFO’s, et al. for the Daily Kos left.  I’m not sure such a forum exists.  So I’m writing here.